Rock. Interview with Eruca sativa: songs that are urgent

We talked with Rocket sativaband that is about to star in your Third worksjust launched Tenth album And he has been on stage for almost 18 years. We wanted to talk about music and politics. With Brenda Martin, Gabriel Pedernera and Lula Bertoldi Do not choose: your music denounces at the same time as it excites, it is planted while it makes you want to jump. So we did: A talk about rock and politics in Milei.

A3DT: an album that is currently planted

The album saw the light last May 15. A material that questions what you want to present as “normal.” Eruca takes very seriously the need to Raise your voice at a time when the right tries to advance against the memory and collective struggles. From their music, they seek to connect with the importance of reaffirming the rights conquered even when they want to put us from above “Against Nosotrxs”.

“The songs speak” dice Brenda And break the ice. He tells that the first steps of this album were several years ago among Zapadas, given the need to play together amid the distancing during the pandemic. They are songs that speak a lot of news, he says, but he does not want to hurry to get into discussions about his lyrics. On the other hand, in the process of composition permeated by the desire to express themselves with the force that characterizes their music is immersed.

Expected return to works

The next July 12 One starts tour In the mythical Sanitary Works Stadium that will continue with presentations throughout the country, also adding dates in MontevideoUruguay. The Buenos Aires neighborhood of Nuñez will witness the energy that is generated between Eruca and its audience, where the songs cease to be (alone) “Of them” and become collective, that moment in which they multiply in thousands of voices in unison.

We ask you what expectations have before that match live and play the songs that mark this album, such as “They won’t happen” o “Against Nosotrxs” in front of so many people, issues that denuncan explicitly what happens in Argentina in the middle of the government of mercy And they call to be united in front of their attacks. Gabi says: “I am anxious to see what happens with these songs over time”and tell that many songs are resignified: for example “So that we are still”that became a hymn and that became a moment of expression by the Human Rights In each show, accounting for the historical commitment of the band.

That song from his first album, The meat (2008) perfectly reflects those years of struggle and strength that the Mothers Of missing children, marking the way for hundreds of thousands in the struggle for human rights. Last year, in Vorterix, they accompanied her with an image of Norita Cortiñaswho had died a few days before. It was one of the most emotional moments of the recital.

Pogos with hunger and collective shouts

Eruca Sativa’s tenth study material arrives in a context in which the culture and the art They are being hard attacked for government policies and hate speeches, with a particular focus towards Women artists. We ask them how they feel the decision to go out as artists to stand as they do and what they think is their role. “Our music looks like a piedrite in front of Goliath, but we have to understand that with those little gestures and daily actions we can overcome it. Present the body on the street and say ‘Che, this is not right’..

In this last time it became usual to hear in the recitals the song “He who does not jump voted to Milei”. In a show of Eruca at the Teatro Floresin December 2024, Brenda He took the microphone when that happened, and proposed that, Instead of pointing to what we have next, let’s focus on that anger directly against those who are occupying the charges today. We asked them about that anecdote, and Brenda resumed it by saying that “if we separate between us, they win,” giving rise to a deeper debate about how The division of those below benefits a minority: Great entrepreneurs and their politicians, who today advance on basic rights such as health and public education. Gabi added that: “That soccer of singing puts Milei out of the debate and lets us face each other, while he laughs. But the problem is him.”

Following the tour of their songs, we arrive at Chacarera on the first daywho speaks against wars and shouts a “high fire” that reminds Palestine. In its shows you usually hear the voice that has been replicating worldwide: the cry for a free Palestine. About this, Brenda and Lula They expressed their anger at the daily attacks suffered by thousands of boys and girls in the strip of Gazawhile the whole world sees these crimes from the screens of their cell phones and world leaders look the other way. “In the future I don’t know how we are going to see this time. What about the presidents of all the countries of the world? They have no blood. It is terrible that nobody gets and stops that”they pointed out, and continued: “It is terrible that everything happens so blatantly in front of the eyes of an entire planet and does not stop.”

Workers’ efforts against the radar of capitalism

During the talk there was also space to talk about workers’ effortsbecause we take them as a gift three books of IPS Editionsand one of them was Freedom trencheswritten by workers from Mad. By mentioning that experience and that of Zanonto which Eruca has been accompanying for years, highlighted the value of cooperative work and daily resistance to the model imposed by capitalism. “The radar of the world goes with capitalism, not with cooperativism, but they are always there, being a compass and a reference in the world,” said Lula.

Upcoming dates

With the same force with which he raises his voice well high, Eruca Sativa continues to bet on music as an expression channel and meeting point. The next July 12 at Estadio worksthey will officially present Three days from Earth on a night that promises to be intense and full of energy. In addition, the tour continues through the country and the region with confirmed dates: